The 'Wheel' is an options strategy that combines cash-secured puts with covered calls. I sometimes have trouble really grasping options strategies in my head, so simulating some scenarios gives me a better feel.
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Sunday, June 13, 2021
Friday, May 21, 2021
Although log10(<any number less than or equal to 0>) is not defined, there are situations where you want to visualize data as if it were. How can you get plotly to do that? Another way of asking is 'how can you mimic symlog functionality in plotly?'
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Sunday, May 2, 2021
Sometimes you want to quickly see unit test coverage of your code. Coverage.py makes that really simple.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
We suck at probability. A common trap we fall into is failing to realize this and thinking in terms of absolutes.
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Sunday, February 7, 2021
You probably learned at some point that the square root of -1 is i. What about the cubed root of it? There's the obvious answer of (-1)^3 = -1, but the answer isn't actually that simple.
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Sunday, January 24, 2021
I wanted to run some quick tests to see if regression toward the mean shows up clearly in NFL data.
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Friday, January 15, 2021
It always seemed magical to me that you can get a square wave from adding together sine waves, so I threw together some animations of Fourier series.
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Saturday, January 2, 2021
If you know a coin is biased to come up heads 75% of the time, what betting strategy should you use to bet on the outcome of a flip?
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Sunday, December 27, 2020
This is just a quick tutorial of conic-gradients showing a flashlight effect with very little code.
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Friday, December 11, 2020
If you combine the major tests and adjust for weight and height, which NFL player had the most impressive combine performance?
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Friday, December 4, 2020
Split violins are a cool way to compare distributions, and plotly makes them simple.
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Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Say you invest some fixed amount of money every year. How long does it take for the investments to grow faster than the amount you're putting into them?
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Sunday, November 1, 2020
If you've looked at betting odds, you've probably seen something like +140 and -175. What % chance does that imply for each participant?
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